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Some Tips:As can be seen I've chosen to assemble the convoys according to designation, rather than listing them chronologically by date. If your purpose for this visit is to find info on the various voyages of a specific ship, this can be done fairly easily. First, use the Search feature on this site to find your ship. That should give you all the convoys the ship appears in on this site. By looking at the dates of departure and arrival it should then be possible to start creating a chronological overview. Note that the HX and the slower SC Convoys sailed to the U.K., while the ON convoys listed below sailed in the other direction (hopefully I'll be able to add some more of the latter).

Convoys that have not been linked up yet will be added. Please note that if a convoy is not mentioned on this page, it means I do not have that information and, therefore, it follows that I will not be able to supply that information by E-mail.

HX & HXF Convoys  1939-1945(HalifaxU.K., later New York CityU.K.)

According to Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" the 377 HX convoys lost a total of 206 ships.
Of these, 110 were lost in convoy, 60 were stragglers and 36 were losses out of convoy.

(The HXF convoys were run to accommodate ships whose speed was sufficiently high to require special convoys, but not high enough to justify inclusion in the independent category. A total of 17 were run - this number is included in the 377 above)

Unlinked convoys will be added. It will be noticed that quite a few of these convoys are incomplete and/or may also have some incorrect information, specifically the ones that are based on a diary. These will be updated with more information and/or corrected if necessary. Escorts for all these convoys will also be added.

According to Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" the 177 SC convoys lost a total of 211 ships.
Of these, 145 were lost in convoy, 54 were stragglers and 12 were losses out of convoy.

Unlinked convoys will be added. It will be noticed that quite a few of these convoys are incomplete and/or may also have some incorrect information, specifically the ones that are based on a diary. These will be updated with more information and/or corrected if necessary. Escorts for all these convoys will also be added.

Some of the ships that arrived in HX or SC convoys etc. came to Belfast were they waited for a feeder convoy to take them on to their respective destinations. In the case of the BB's this was usually ports in the Bristol channel.

Out of a total of 430 convoys (4653 ships) only 1 ship was lost. (The American Will Rogers was damaged when in BB 80 in Apr.-1945).

The numbering sequence of these convoys is a bit unusual, in that the same designation has been used more than once.
I'll add them in the order in which they sailed, as follows:

* Reports only are available for convoys HG 66, HG 68, HG 70, HG 72 and HG 73.
(The report for HG 66 includes info on HMS Farndale's rescue of survivors from Auris, while the report in connection with HG 68 has no information on the convoy itself, but deals with the boarding of the French steamer Isac by crew from HMS Beverley - detached from HG 68. Similarly, the report for HG 72 has nothing on the convoy itself, but is an account of a sighting of, and attack on, a Focke Wolfe aircraft on Sept. 14, as well as the sinking of 1 ship in the convoy on the 15th).

Out of a total of 276 convoys (this number includes SL convoys), 124 ships were lost.
Of these, 75 were lost in convoy, 33 were stragglers and 16 were out of convoy losses.
The 51 MKF convoys lost 2 ships.

The following are available (convoys not yet linked up will be added):

* For info on OGF 20, see OA 98GF & OB 98GF
** Attack report only has been posted to the page for OG 47 - names of ships are available at the link to all OG convoys above.

KMS Convoys  1942-1945(U.K.-Mediterranean, Slow)

Out of a total of 147 convoys (this number includes OS convoys, with which some of the KMS convoys were combined - see this external site), 75 ships were lost.
Of these, 51 were lost in convoy, 5 were stragglers and 19 were lost out of convoy.

The following are available (convoys not yet linked up will be added):

Related external links:Convoy Routing CodesMore Routing Codes - A section of Uboat.net's site.Convoy Routes - WW I and WW II.Convoys, North America-UK - This is a handy site in that it shows the convoys in chronologial order according to date, rather than according to the designations of the convoys, with number of ships and losses as per info in Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System". It also has yearly statistics showing the number of convoys sailing each year, with total number of ships and losses (the site does not, however, name the ships in each convoy). Text is in German, but it's fairly self explanatory. (My link goes to the section for 1939-1940). It's a section of Chronik des Seekrieges 1939-1945, Jürgen Rohwer/Gerhard Hümmelchen. The site also shows similar information for several other series.

Sources / Acknowledgments:A lot of the initial HX and SC convoy information was received from Ted Agar (England), who has worked for years putting it together, based on a diary. In most of the lists from Ted the ships' names appear to be given according to the time they left port, with a few minutes between each ship, and in most cases I've kept them that way when listing all the ships at the end of each table. It's important to note with regard to the HX convoys that Ted's lists include ships joining the convoy from Halifax only; ships joining from Sydney, C.B and/or Newfoundland are not listed in the diary, but this information has been, or will be, added from other sources.Since then, Roger Griffiths has supplied me with a vast amount of convoy forms and reports. These are original A-1 forms or Advance Sailing Telegrams from the Public Records Office in Kew.Also, as will be seen, Tony Cooper in England is responsible for a lot of the information in this section, including the Norwegian convoys, HG convoys, MKS convoys, RU convoys and others. These are also based on original documents from the Public Records Office in Kew.Additinally, Don Kindell has sent me a lot of valuable convoy information, including HX, ON, ONS, OG, KMS, MKS, CU and UC convoys, as well as Norwegian convoys - these are all based on Arnold Hague's database.From Olaf Evertse, Holland I've received quite a few ON convoys and reports, and Robert Martin has provided some of the KMS convoy information and others.
Dominique Lemaire, Don Bertke, Phil Morgan and David Tranter have provided invaluable corrections, as have several other visitors to the site. Many thanks also to Roy Martin.

Once I've added the ships in their stations, I check the spelling and add nationalities and other relevant information with the help of my various books, as follows:Arnold Hague's "The Allied Convoy System" and "Convoy Rescue Ships 1940-1945", as well as "Convoys to Russia" by Arnold Hague and Bob Ruegg. Roger W. Jordan's "The World's Merchant Fleet 1939" is of great help to me when looking for the nationality of a ship, as is E. Gröner's "Taschenbuch der Handelsflotten".

Some of the lists may be incomplete. If anyone has further information (or corrections), please do let me know. By helping me put these convoy pages together, you'll help so many people who are looking for this information. Contact address can be found below.